Oooh, Gremlins. I haven't seen that in so long! We had a marathon family Monopoly game and the kids had fun handing out candy to the people who came to the door. I like the goody bags idea that you did. We don't do candy except for TJ's lollypops but putting some other non-candy treats in a bag is a good idea for next year. =)

***DISCLAIMER***Any posts about "curriculum" are all from before we came to unschooling.

Our school days look just like a day of summer vacation, a day of living life joyfully as a family.

What you won't find in our house:

No parent mandated chores - instead chores that kids agree to do as part of the household. No punishments. - instead we talk and discuss. No "school work" really of any kind. No curriculum. No clear your plate club at meal time. - Our kids really have great on off switches for when their hungry and when they are not. No parents make the rules kids follow kind of thing. - We as parents are not perfect people and we discuss with the kids. We are not infallible and are always open to discussion. No set schedule of when my kids can do what unless it's about sleeping and then they do have to be considerate of anyone asleep of course. No food controls. No limits on when they can game, watch TV or use the internet.

What you will find:Lots of learning all the time. Tons of consideration, kindness and empathy from kids to parents and parents to kids. Respectful kids. Respectful parents. Lots of laughter and fun. Prayers (we are quite a prayerful bunch)Lots of music. A helpful attitude. Love.

Christmas 2015

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"The founding fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called education. School is where you go between when your parents can't take you and industry can't take you."

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"Children do not need to be made to learn about the world, or shown how. They want to, and they know how." --John Holt

"Little children love the world. That is why they are so good at learning about it. For it is love, not tricks and techniques of thought, that lies at the heart of all true learning. Can we bring ourselves to let children learn and grow through that love?"

--John Holt

A quote by Sandra Dodd

ANY mention of unschooling in the presence of school-at-homers is taken as criticism, and that will be true forever.To suggest, in the presence of people who are making their children do schoolwork, that schoolwork is a) not necessary and b) harmful is considered (by them) to be somewhere between storming their house from above, and undermining it from below.

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